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Article: Pure Foods Low Carb Markets Embark On The Pure Foods Foundation to Help Fight Child Obesity; Pure Foods, LLC Co-Founder Stephen Bikoff Who Lost 80 lbs On the Atkins Diet is Chairman of This Newly Formed Non-For Profit Children's Foundation.
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- PR Newswire
- Article date:
- January 13, 2004
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The number of overweight kids in the United States continues to soar, having almost tripled in 25 years, according to a government survey on the health of the nation's 72 million children. Experts say three of four kids who are overweight as teens will stay that way as adults, according to the CBS News analysis of the report, which was compiled by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. It is estimate that 22 million of the world's children under 5 are overweight or obese. In the United States, some 60 percent of adults are overweight or obese, as are nearly 13 percent of children.
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